Police still investigating van, ambulance crash in Stroud Township

Police are still investigating the crash between an Ichiban van and West End Ambulance rig Wednesday night.

Chad Smith

Police are still investigating the crash between an Ichiban van and West End Ambulance rig Wednesday night.

Police are checking what color both lights were when the accident occurred, Stroudsburg Area Regional Police Captain Brian Kimmins said.

The driver of the Ichiban van was Bao xin Huang of Brooklyn, N.Y. The driver of the ambulance was driver James Delancey of Monroe County.

The West End Ambulance was traveling north on four-lane Route 209, transporting a patient to Pocono Medical Center, according to witnesses at the scene.

According to Ichiban restaurant manager Tommy Lin, the restaurant van was going straight through the intersection at Shafers Schoolhouse Road and had a green light. Lin said the ambulance was going through the red light and the van broadsided the ambulance.

The ambulance ended up on its side about 30 feet from the intersection, Lin said.

The incident happened just after 10:30 p.m. Traffic was moving again by 11:15 p.m.

According to reports, the ambulance turned over and a patient was trapped inside. The patient's name has not been released.

“We don't care about damage to the van. We want to make sure people are not hurt.," Lin said at the scene last night.

Both the Ichiban van and the ambulance were taken from the scene on rollback wreckers.

Jackie Wenzell, manager of the West End Ambulance, said that the patient being transported and the ambulance staff were treated at Pocono Medical Center and released.

She also said that West End Ambulance is still fully functional even though one of their six ambulances is temporarily knocked out of commission.